# You are taking it way to far. How much more of a nerd can you be? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027 "2003-07-17T01:20:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dinoboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dinoboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinoboy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/21 "2003-07-17T04:49:10Z")
Oh, hey, I was impressed with that kid and his own spinoff, I mean, he wrote HUNDREDS of pages and did computer animation and all of that. If only that power could be harnessed for GOOD. I wonder whatever became of him? (Radio Shack assosiate manager?) As for the Commander, as all in fear of her pulling out an uzi one day on them called her, she is beyond help. I just don’t want to be around the morning she wakes up and realizes that… ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/22 "2003-07-17T04:52:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dinoboy \* > \*\*Oh, hey, I was impressed with that kid and his own spinoff, I mean, he wrote HUNDREDS of pages and did computer animation and all of that. > \*\* I was impressed and disturbed in equal measures. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/23 "2003-07-17T05:32:30Z")
**DdDHellspawn** , does your understanding of current national and world events come from [The Onion](http://www.theonion.com/)? [sub]He damn-well better not be whooshing me.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/24 "2003-07-17T07:08:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DdDHellspawn \* > \*\* > > And how have I been whooshed??? and what the hell does that mean??? > \*\* Just for the record, darlin’, you get whooshed when a joke has gone over your head or by taking something seriously when it was meant as satire, hyperbole, or just plain nonsense. Welcome to the Board.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/25 "2003-07-17T08:10:02Z")
It’s all moot. The Battlestar Galactica could kick both their butts. C’mon … the Enterprise just has a couple of shuttles, while the Battlestar has tons of Colonial Vipers that could dart in and out. Ypu are teh sukxorz!!!11!!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/26 "2003-07-17T10:11:22Z")
I’m just glad I’m a _Doctor Who_ fan is all. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/27 "2003-07-17T10:42:41Z")
The battle of the titans: [http://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWhi2.html](http://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWhi2.html) ``` VS ``` [http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/index.html](http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/28 "2003-07-17T14:29:58Z")
I’m beggining to wonder if the original poster is actually whooshing all of you… ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/29 "2003-07-17T14:46:31Z")
Reading this thread takes on a nearly surreal air when you do it while flipping through the _Player’s Handbook_ trying to figure out what the Spot check DC is for noticing a portal activate during combat. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/30 "2003-07-17T16:34:53Z")
What, no one’s linked to the “Enterprise vs. a Star Destroyer” thread right here on the SDMB? For shame. And, no, I’m doing doing it either. I don’t have time to wait on a search. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/31 "2003-07-17T20:05:30Z")
And here I thought this was going to be about one of the flamewars spawned in the Pit over a physics or philosophy GD thread 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/32 "2003-07-17T20:58:08Z")
I am not really posting to this thread. The whole thing has been a rather amusing hallucination. At least I hope it was. Hoo boy. ---
**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/33 "2003-07-17T21:07:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dogface \* > \*\*I’m beggining to wonder if the original poster is actually whooshing all of you… \*\* Egads, we’ve been metawhooshed! ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/34 "2003-07-17T21:19:44Z")
I don’t mean to hijack the thread here, but I was so jazzed to see someone pick up on my little joke. > [@](#): > > OK, OK. Alucard is cool. Yes. > > But we are talking about the Humanoid Typhoon here. You know, the $$60,000,000,000 man? Yes, but face it, no matter how many times Vash hits Alucard with bullets, Alucard’s just going to ooze around and fight back, whereas we know Vash can be hurt, he got all those scars from someplace. The sad part is that this game is called “Who vs. who?” and is constantly played by my family, even my daughter who is not normally allowed to discuss stuff she isn’t allowed to watch like Hellsing. My husband’s latest is that Severus Snape could beat Alucard but I don’t buy that one either. It’s the Nerd Family all right. Anyway, no fair bringing up Battlestar Galactica, that thing is just plain enormous and while they may have been lousy actors they were all great pilots. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/35 "2003-07-17T21:19:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DeadlyAccurate \* > \*\*Reading this thread takes on a nearly surreal air when you do it while flipping through the _Player’s Handbook_ trying to figure out what the Spot check DC is for noticing a portal activate during combat. \*\* 3E or 3.5? Because I don’t think 3E includes this information – that might be your problem. The fine upstanding folk over at the [EN Boards Rules Forum](http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=2&forumid=3) would be more than happy to help, at any rate. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/36 "2003-07-17T21:52:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by saramamlana \* > \*\* > Better than THAT, if any of you saw the episode of Conan where he sent Triumph to mock the people in line waiting to see SW, he’s one of the guys in line getting picked on. Haha! \*\* Which one was he? I thought a lot of the people in that bit seemed pretty good-natured about the whole thing, took the ribbing with good humor, and seemed to realize that yes, they were more than a little nerdy. It was the ones who tried to be “cool” and talk back to Triumph that really came off as losers. Sometimes delusional losers. ---
**Author:** ![mdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@mdf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdf)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/37 "2003-07-17T21:59:54Z")
Just in case anyone isn’t sure where they stand in the pantheon of nerdiness/geekiness, [here’s](http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif) a handy reference. -mdf ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/38 "2003-07-17T22:00:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DanielWithrow \* > \*\*3E or 3.5? Because I don’t think 3E includes this information – that might be your problem. The fine upstanding folk over at the [EN Boards Rules Forum](http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=2&forumid=3) would be more than happy to help, at any rate. > Daniel \*\* I think I came up with a fair DC, but if I have time I’ll try to run it by the Enworld people. I’m still using 3E. Our 3.5 books are in the process of shipping. ---
**Author:** ![X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbe5ce/32.png) [@X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X_Slayer_ALE)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/39 "2003-07-17T22:09:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*Because the former in both cases is NOT REAL! > > FICTION! > I personally have nothing against most ‘ordinary’ fans (I myself might have one or two opinions about what can beat who etc…) but there are a worrying abundance of those who take it too far. > > Like the kid with the monotone voice who designed his own suit (and spinoff). the goofy little woman who insists on wearing her uniform(and tricorder etc…) at work and seems (when you hear her talk) to believe it’s all real. \*\* Excuse me. Al Gore didnt get elected. Any discussions about what he could or couldnt have done while in office is FICTION! The same goes about whether or not we shouldve gone into Iraq. We kicked butt and came back already! Give it a rest! Argueing back and forth on the technicalitys of a done deed is pointless and near taking it too far. Focus on the here and now is what i am hearing from the dissenters here. What I am getting at is that if a person goes to work in a multi-colored mono-suit with a “tricorder”, does her job well, believes in the reality of Star Trek, How is that different from a guy going to work in a 3 peice suit and a PDA, doing his job well, believes in the reality of a God? If theyre happy and they dont hurt anyone, its their call. Rememer that part about _“the pursuit of happiness”_? ---
**Author:** ![DdDHellspawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@DdDHellspawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DdDHellspawn)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027/40 "2003-07-17T22:36:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Just for the record, darlin’, you get whooshed when a joke has gone over your head or by taking something seriously when it was meant as satire, hyperbole, or just plain nonsense. Thanks Kallessa I didn’t know that. 🙂 I guess in a way I have wooshed you all. This isn’t supposed to be taken too seriously. But I am annoyed by people who take their hobbies to extremes and loose their grips on reality. With something as retarted to argue about which fictional ship is better and truely argue about it is nuts! Like I said in the very begining > [@](#): > > I know everyone is a geek/nerd/doofus/dork when it comes down to it. Accept that and life becomes alot easier. But taking it too seriously is extreme. Let you be a sports fanatic or a Trekkie you are taking this a little far. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-taking-it-way-to-far-how-much-more-of-a-nerd-can-you-be/189027.md?page=3)